Clinical Trials Offer Hope for GIST Patients
The Life Raft Group Clinic Trials Database currently lists 31 trials that are open that are or could be of interest to GIST patients. Many of the most interesting of these new drugs are [...]
LRG Presents Poster at CTOS, 2017
Dr. Jason Sicklick and Norman Scherzer co-present poster at 2017 CTOS meeting. Norman Scherzer, Executive Director of The Life Raft Group, recently co-presented a poster at the 2017 CTOS (Connective Tissue Oncology [...]
Night to Fight Cancer Overwhelming Success
The fourteenth annual “Night to Fight Cancer” to benefiting the Life Raft Group’s research programs took place on October 19, 2017 at Midtown Loft and Terrace in New York City. This year Jerry Cudzil, [...]
Life Raft Group Canada’s 6th Annual GIST Day of Learning a Success
By Malcolm Sutherland Life Raft Group Canada (LRGC) held its 6th Annual GIST Day of Learning on October 21, 2-17 in Toronto. Topics Topics included: “Highlights from New Horizons GIST Conference”, presented by LRGC President [...]
The Life Raft Group: A Love Story
For some time we have been describing the history of the Life Raft Group as being built upon hundreds of love stories. Parents for their children. Husbands for their wives. Lovers for their soul mates. [...]
Annual Holiday Campaign Seeks to Make an Impact
Bella Rocco The Life Raft Group's annual holiday campaign officially launched on #GivingTuesday, November 28th, 2017. #GIVINGTUESDAY is an opportunity to come together as a community to make an impact on the lives [...]
Andrea Torres: A Story of Hope and Optimism
My name is Andrea Torres, and I am 24 years old. I am from Tegucigalpa, Honduras. I was diagnosed with GIST in December 2015 here in Honduras. I was 22 years old. It began [...]
2017 GIST Award Goes to Dr. Adrian Siefert
The GIST Group Switzerland, the support group for patients with gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) has awarded its science prize for the eighth time. The 2017 GIST prize, worth CHF 10,000, was awarded to Dr. [...]
CTTI Meeting Promotes Innovation
Professor Dan Ariely The Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative (CTTI) held its quarterly Steering Committee meeting this past September in Washington DC, which focused largely on effective ways to increase adoption of clinical [...]
Howard Greenley: Pioneer GIST Warrior, Loving Husband, Father, and Grandfather
Howard Greenley, 59, of Houghton, MI, passed away in October 2017, following a very long and courageous battle against cancer. Born and raised in lower Michigan, Howard was a graduate of Holderness Prep School [...]